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From: Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net>
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Subject: Re: Faking a TTY on a pipe/socketpair
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
> On Fri, 13 Dec 2024 07:42:07 -0800, John Ames wrote:
>> This bears repeating. Why *anybody* decided to trust the judgement of
>> the person who gave us the jankiest of all the incredibly janky *nix
>> audio subsystems is beyond comprehension.
>
> There was no reason why you had to. You could easily have created your own 
> distro without any of his code in it, if you wanted to. Or become an 
> aficionado of one of the existing distros that did exactly that.
>
> Open Source is all about choice. If you can’t stand the thought of people 
> making different choices from you, you know what you can do.

If these people get paid by $big_name_companies, there's exactly nothing
individuals can do about that. Unless they happen to be rich enough that
they can waste a ton of money on their hobbies and then, they'd still
need to get a competent work force from somewhere.